The following was submitted by the artist's brother: Born: 1962
Residence: Dearborn, Michigan
Education: BFA, Architectural Design, Massachusetts College Of Arts, 1986 AA, General Studies, Yakima Community College, 1983
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2006 Technology and the culture of Fear, April 2006. Madison, Wisconsin 2005 Reinterpreting the Middle East: Beyond the Historical stereotype, The Corcoran College of Art & design, Washington, DC 2005 Journeys and Distances, Padzieski Art Gallery, Dearborn, MI 2005 Historical Stereotyping, Sission Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI 2004 Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, FL 2004 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts, 2003 New England Print Fairs, Boston, Galerie Camille, 2003 Diversity in Harmony, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI 2002 Woods Gallery, Huntington Woods, Michigan, 2001 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts, 2000 New England Print Fairs, Boston, Galerie Camille, 2000 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts, 2000 The Michigan Modernism Exposition, Southfield, MI 1999 Art Space II, Birmingham, MI 1999 Water, Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1996 Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA 1995 Anisworth Gallery, Boston, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2007 Juxtaposed, Arab American National Museum, March-May 2007, Dearborn, MI 2003 Monotypes, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI 1997, Brush of History, Gallery, Lowell, MA 1995 Visual Metaphors, Lowell Gallery, MA 1992 Recent Drawings & Etchings, Whistler House Museum of Arts, Lowell, MA
Selected Bibliographies: Arte East, January 2006 News by Maymanah Farhad Al Jadid Summer 2005, By Fayeq Oweis, “Adnan Charara’s Art Inspired by Styles, Symbols of Identity. Pg. 21 Living Artists 13th Edition, ArtNetwork Press, 2003 Shirley McLellan,” Two Artists share their world view at new exhibit,” The Daily Tribune, January 11, 2002, Section B, p.3B. Staff NY Arts Magazine, “ Adnan Charara.” NY ARTS Magazine, Feb..2001. vol. 6 #2, p.77 Rosemary Noon, “Visual Metaphors,” Lowell Office Of Cultural Affairs, Aug/Sep, 1993 Randi Stone, “Artist uses Whimsy as social comments,” The Lowell Sun, April 23, 1992 p.23
Television: 2005 Artbeat, Detroit Public TV, November 20, 2004 2006 Adnan Charara, A film by Kathy Zarur, November 2006
Awards / Grants Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Public Collections: Russian Embassy, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Whistler House Museum Of Arts, Lowell, MA Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Museum, Providence, RI South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, MA Detroit Institute Of Art, Detroit, MI University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI Boston Public Library, Boston, MA The Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, D.C.
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